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Is 2% the Solution? Experimental Evidence on the New CSR Rule in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The Indian government became the first regulator in the world to mandate a minimum CSR spending on certain specified social welfare activities. Prior research in psychology indicates that individuals tend to focus heavily ...
Entry of Profit-Motivated Microfinance Institutions and Borrower Welfare
(2013-11-22)
In this paper, we model welfare implications of entry of commercial micro nance institutions
(MFIs). We initially characterize equilibrium with a sole fund-constrained benevolent credit
institution followed by equilibrium ...
Maternal Health Financing – Issues and Options A Study of Chiranjeevi Yojana in Gujarat
(2009-08-08)
Government of Gujarat announced a “Chiranjeevi Yojana” in April 2005 to improve access to institutional delivery and at the same time provide financial protection to poor families in Gujarat. The scheme covers below poverty ...
Contracting-out of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Services through Mother NGO Scheme in India: Experiences and Implications
(2009-08-13)
Partnership with NGOs in delivering and provision of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services through mother NGO (MNGO) in the un-served and under-served regions is one of the important initiatives in India. The scheme ...
Implications of Human Resource Practices and Other Structural Factors on Commitment of Public Medical Professionals in India
(2009-08-03)
In this paper we focus on often neglected issue and inadequately studied area of commitment of public sector health professionals and some of the issues surrounding human resources as its determinants. The paper argues ...
Provision of Reproductive Health Services to Urban Poor through Public-Private Partnerships: The Case of Andhra Pradesh Urban Health Care Project
(2009-08-13)
Andhra Pradesh had initiated the Urban Slum Health Care Project to provide basic primary healthcare and family welfare services to urban poor living in slums in 2002. As of now, the project has established 192 Urban Health ...
Challenges in sustaining a hospital: lessons for managing healthcare institutions
(2009-09-03)
One of the important components of the private health care sector has been health care facilities set up by corporate sector. The financial sustainability of these facilities is closely linked to the financial performance ...
Player Pricing and Valuation of Cricketing Attributes: Exploring the IPL Twenty-Twenty Vision
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
In April 2008, BCCI initiated Indian Premier League, a cricket tournament of Twenty-Twenty overs to be played among eight domestic teams. Team owners bid for the services of cricketers for a total of US$ 42 million. Not ...
Degree of Instant Competition: Estimation of Market Power in India’s Instant Coffee Market
(2009-08-21)
The new competition policy of the Government of India seeks to promote competition to protect consumer interests and increase market efficiency. In fact, the degree of price transmission between farmers and final consumers ...
Need for back-up in box Solar Cooker
(2012-10-11)
Systematic efforts to promote box solar cookers in Gujarat (India) began in Gujarat is characterised by high insolation, high ambient temperatures, clear sky and it parts, severe shortage of fuel –wood. In short, a region ...